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7/23/2006 9:44 AM
 
Hello,

Apologies - I could not find the Review Forum that is mentioned on the Reviews page, so I posted here:

I am not a skinner, but whenever I buy skins I find that the containers are normally completely useless as they don't support the "min/max/none" icon, RSS Feed, Print and module actions (I raised this here (saying that this issue makes me want to rip my hair out is an understatement!))

I had a quick look at the Skinning Review guidelines and it seems that this is still not a requirement for a good skin?

I buy a skin for $50 - $100 and spend the next day or 2 hacking and copying containers and putting in all the missing Tokens so that I can actual use them. Surely this should be a requirement?

I use 2 very well known skins (both top sellers on Snowcovered) and they both don't put module actions and RSS feeds in (I won't mention names, you can work it out from the fact that I have now used another skin's containers in place of the bought ones because of this... to be fair one of the skinners offered to add the RSS feed tokens but I think this should be a mandatory requirement if I am splashing out $50 on a reviewed skin.

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7/24/2006 2:09 AM
 
Hey Rodney, I'd say it's up to the skinner to tell you what tokens they support. I'm hoping no guideline will tell me how to make a skin or module that serves its own defined purpose.

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7/24/2006 2:21 AM
 
No, I think there is a difference - the DNN core provides a UI to turn these on and off - but the Skinner must do their job and implement them for the UI to work.

With modules you don't have the configurable element in the DNN UI,

As someone mentioned in the post - they should really be decoupled - the container/skinner should not decide if you as the site owner want to implement printing, RSS or module actions, that should be up to you.

ALL containers should be able to display this functionality IF the site owner turns it on - they just have to make it look pretty - I should decide on the business use of it...



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7/24/2006 3:47 AM
 

Rodney,

I agree, that all skins and container should contain all UI elements needed to access the core options - however there are some doubled options, which are not necessarily contained in each skin/container, e.g. the edit link, that is included in the action menu as well.


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7/24/2006 8:18 AM
 
John Mitchell has abstracted his post from that link I gave into his blog here...  I agree that something needs to be done in the long term, but it would be good if skinners could make it easier for buyers right now.



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